I just bought the board alongside 6850k. Next week going to put it all together, cause of some work i have to do over this weekend on the old machine...
anyway i was reading some things around in preparation yesterday and found out, the mobo might not support BW-E cpus out of the box, flashing of the BIOS may be neccessary. BUT, you got to have working CPU installed in the mobo to be able to flash - in this case one of the Haswell-E line-up.... obviously, if it comes to that (which seems very likely, as my board has serial number starting with 15, implying its manufacturing date to be 2015, thus boasting older version of BIOS - well, naturally), i am screwed, as i dont have any Haswell CPUs lying around.... and know only one person to have one, 5960x actually, but i dont want him to ask to borrow it to me and have his machine temporarily dissasembled in the process just to do it....
This is pretty disheartening. I cant believe it can be actually true. Is this normal thing? I thought you can flash BIOS without CPU installed? Massive mistake in GB´s part.
anyway i was reading some things around in preparation yesterday and found out, the mobo might not support BW-E cpus out of the box, flashing of the BIOS may be neccessary. BUT, you got to have working CPU installed in the mobo to be able to flash - in this case one of the Haswell-E line-up.... obviously, if it comes to that (which seems very likely, as my board has serial number starting with 15, implying its manufacturing date to be 2015, thus boasting older version of BIOS - well, naturally), i am screwed, as i dont have any Haswell CPUs lying around.... and know only one person to have one, 5960x actually, but i dont want him to ask to borrow it to me and have his machine temporarily dissasembled in the process just to do it....
This is pretty disheartening. I cant believe it can be actually true. Is this normal thing? I thought you can flash BIOS without CPU installed? Massive mistake in GB´s part.
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